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Originally Posted by awareness
Please ignore the extra-biblical comments in this post. Consider them the ramblings of a worm ... but howbeit a god worm ... perchance ...
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A glow worm. Faintly glowing, in sympathetic synchrony with the light from above.
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Originally Posted by awareness
And that's why I so need God's love. And need Paul's comment to the Roman Christians: "For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord."
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I was thinking of this verse, too, in similar context: what doctrine, theology, teaching, or hermeneutic should separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord? Answer: none. That's a big reason why "becoming God in life and nature but not in the Godhead" doesn't cut it for me. First off, there's no love stated. Too easy to forget. I need love in front of me, 24/7... never assume it's there, or you end up like the Ephesians, full of hifalutin terminology but with no love (Rev. 2:4). Secondly, it's a speculative statement. I don't care if Athanasius first documented this notion. I can give you 46,000 documented notions, some much older than Athanasius.
I like to speculate, and have done it often, even publicly on this forum. But I try to keep "truth" and "speculation" distinct (and it helps to do that, that I'm not merchandizing my speculations).